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Cost of locking up prisoners reaches eye-watering high

The cost of managing the nation's prison populations has exploded in the past decade as cells become fuller and more people reoffend.

AAP · Feb 3

Taxpayers foot record amount to jail young people

A record $1.1 billion spent locking up children and young people, revealed in a new report, has been described as the result of a "devastating policy failure".

AAP · Jan 29

Reforms begin to close working-with-children loopholes

An urgent plan to close loopholes in working with children checks will not "reinvent the wheel" but the government is confident it will help protect children.

AAP · Aug 15, 2025

Children As Young As 10 Years Old Can Be Jailed In Australia Under New Law

Australia's Northern Territory lowered the age of responsibility from 12 to combat a 'crime crisis'

International Business Times · Oct 18, 2024

'Even US' doing better on youth justice than Australia

Australia needs to dump its tough on crime approach towards kids and become accountable for its failures in child protection, the children's commissioner says.

AAP · Oct 2, 2024

'Horrific' figures as DV services given funding boost

Frontline services supporting women and children fleeing domestic violence won't get an immediate funding boost, as Australian leaders agree to a new package.

AAP · Sep 5, 2024

Wild weather across three states – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Sep 2, 2024

Teen's custody death triggers call for justice overhaul

The death of a second Indigenous teenager in custody in less than a year has prompted calls for an overhaul of the youth justice system.

AAP · Aug 31, 2024

'Waiting for crisis': urgent warning on youth justice

Youth crime will not be solved by pouring more money into police and prisons across the nation, the Human Rights Commission warns.

AAP · Aug 20, 2024

Children’s commissioner finds evidence of ‘most egregious’ human rights breaches in Australia

Landmark report details ‘heartbreaking’ accounts of children in the criminal justice system and calls for sweeping reforms

The Guardian - AU · Aug 20, 2024